Salt Bae Burger, once dubbed New York’s worst restaurant, closes

Nusret Gökçe, known as Salt Bae, poses at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. Photograph: Stéphane Mahé/Reuters

Three years after it was declared “The Worst Restaurant In NYC Right Now,” Salt Bae’s Manhattan burger joint has closed.

Salt Bae, of course, is the social media tag for the New York celebrity chef and butcher Nusret Gökçe, who became famous for bouncing flakes of salt off his forearm and on to just about anything edible, giving customers varying degrees of salt-shock.